Is Higher Water Intake Advice Driven By Business Interests?

The suggestion that our bodies need about two liters of fluids each day is not specifically related to water. Spero Tsindos from La Trobe University published an editorial in the June edition of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, examining the reasons for people’s high water intake…

Link Between Red Meat Consumption And Increased Risk Of Total, Cardiovascular, And Cancer Mortality

A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers has found that red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.

Women Copy Each Others’ Eating Patterns

When two women are eating together, one is more likely to put food in her mouth when the other one is doing so too – while one’s food-filled fork is coming towards her mouth, the other one is more likely to do the same within five seconds, researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, reported in PLoS One (The Public Library of Science 1)…

Risk Of Surgical Complications May Be Reduced By Limiting Protein Or Certain Amino Acids Before Surgery

Limiting certain essential nutrients for several days before surgery – either protein or amino acids – may reduce the risk of serious surgical complications such as heart attack or stroke, according to a new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study.

Study Describes Simple, Inexpensive Program That Improves Healthy Choices In Hospital Cafeteria

A simple program involving color-coded food labeling and adjusting the way food items are positioned in display cases was successful in encouraging more healthful food choices in a large hospital cafeteria. The report from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers will appear in the March American Journal of Public Health and has received early online release…

Type Of Fat Matters: Dispelling The Low-Fat-Is-Healthy Myth; And The Muffin Makeover

Dozens of studies, many from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers, have shown that low-fat diets are no better for health than moderate- or high-fat diets – and for many people, may be worse…

In-Store Calorie Signs Reduce Teenage Sugary Drink Consumption

According to an investigation published December 15 in the American Journal of Public Health, adolescents from lower-income, mainly Black neighborhoods in Baltimore who saw signs in convenience stores regarding calorie information, bought fewer energy drinks, sodas, and other sugary drinks. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported the investigation through its Healthy Eating Research program…

HCG Diet Is Unproven And Potentially Harmful, Say Endocrine Experts

The Hormone Foundation, the public education affiliate of The Endocrine Society, has published a fact sheet called, “Myth vs. Fact: The Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Diet”, in order to clear up confusion surrounding the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) diet

Folic Acid Early In Pregnancy Reduces Severe Language Delay Risk In Offspring

Women who take folic acid supplements during their first eight weeks of pregnancy significantly reduce their babies’ risk of having severe language delay when they are three years old, researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)…

Coffee Lowers Depression Risk In Older Females

The more coffee an older woman drinks the lower her risk of depression is, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health reported in Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers stressed that theirs was an observational study, and can only suggest the possibility of coffee’s protective effect, rather that prove that it reduces depression risk…

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